THE LINCOLNSHIRE ORIGIN 



OF 



SOME EXETER SETTLERS 



By V. C. SANBORN 



THE DAUGHTERS OF BALTHAZAR WILLIX 



By VIRGINIA HALL 






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[Reprinted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
for January, 1911] 



THE LINCOLNSHIRE ORIGIN OF SOME EXETER 
SETTLERS 



By Victor Channing Sanborn, Esq., of Kenilworth, 111. 



Lincoln Minster stands, if not supreme, at least in the front 
rank of English cathedrals. Its archives form a treasure house of 
historical material, as doubtless do those of many another episcopal 
see. But the diocese of Lincoln fortunately has in Canon Foster 
an antiquary whose energy and ability have made this vast store of 
records accessible to the student. The genealogist will inevitably 
compare these Lincoln records with those of many other dioceses, 
greatly to the disadvantage of the latter. It is earnestly to be 
hoped that before it is too late the local authorities of other dioceses 
will cause their archives to be arranged in the same systematic 
manner. 

It is owing to Canon Foster's labors and courtesy that I am able 
to present these notes gleaned in a visit to Lincoln last summer. 
The transcripts of Lincolnshire parish registers exist from an early 
period. They supplement to a great degree the local registers, where 
these have disappeared wholly or partially in the lapse of centuries. 
We searched the transcripts of thirty parishes within a five-mile 
radius of Wheelwright's own parish of Bilsby. The results prove 
the origin of several of our early Exeter and Hampton settlers — 
Cram, Dearborn, Rabone or Haborne, Wight, and Willix, and 
supply new data concerning the Wheelwrights. 

Cram 
The Will of Thomas Crambe of Billsby in the Marsh, 3 April 1638. 
Son Samewell Cramb, his wife, and children. Austin Couper of Billesby, 
his wife, and children. Alice Crambe and her two sous. Gaine Cramb, 
daughter to Richard Cramb. Thomas Masonne of Asswerby in the parish 
of Billsby, his wife, and one son. Son John Crambe. Lidea Crame, 
daughter to Willyam Crame. Cerstine Nweman* of Hannay in the Marsh 
and her six sons. Residue to son Thomas Crambe of Willoughby in the 
Marsh, executor. [Signed] Thomas (T) Crambe, his murk. Witnesses : 
Thom' Ouerton, Martye Hansume. Proved 30 March 1639. (Consistory 
of Lincoln, 1639, fo. 102.) 

* This was Christian Cram, daughter of John of Alford, who married (1) Thomas 
Raithby, (2) Theophilus Drury, and (3) John Newman. 



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Cram Entries in thk Bishop's Transcripts of Lincolnshire 
1'arisii Registers 

Alford 
I.jGo Gulielmus cram filiiis Johannis baptizatus 10 November. 
l.')72 Fraunces Gramme the souue of J lion of Well baptized 21 December. 
1582'*Christiana Cram lillia Johaunis Cram baptized — January [1582/3]. 

1587 Maria Cram filia .loliis Cram baptized 16 September. 

1588 Nicolaus Cram tilius .lohis Cram sepultus 14 February [1588/9]. 

1589 liicardus Cram filius Tlioniae Cram baptized li) April. 

1590 Klizabetlia Cram iilia .loliis Cram baptized 16 May. 
1592 -Elizabetha filia Joliis Cram sepulta 24 April. 

1596 Gulielmus Cram et Elizabetha Chapman uupt' 18 November.* 

1597 .lolies filius Willi Cram baptized 3 .January [1597/8]. 

1600 Will'mus filius "Will'mi Cram baptized 6 May. 

1601 Will'mus filius Will'mi Cram sepultus 21 July. 

1602 Elizabetha filia Will'i Cram baptized 6 June. 

1603 Joanna Cram vid' sepulta 16 April. 

Blhby 

1595 Thomas sonne of Thomas Cram baptized 23 November. 

1596 John Crame son of Thomas Crame baptized 29 January [1596/7]. 

1598 Samuel filius Thome Cram baptizatus 9 Martii [1598/9]. 

1602 Jane filia Thome Cram baptizata 24 October. 

1603 William the sonne of William Crame baptized 10 July. 

1604 Thamar the daughter of Thomas Cramb baptized 4 December. 

1605 Anne the daughter of Tho : Cram baptized 8 February [1605/6]. 
1607 Robert the sonne of Willyam Cram baptized 3 May. 

1609 Willyam the sonne of Wm. Cram buried 20 May. 

1609 Sara the daughter of Will'm Cram baptized 17 December. 

1610 Sylvester the sonne of Thomas Cram baptized 16 September. 

1611 Sylvester the sonne of Thomas Cram buried viij June. 

1611 Lidia the daughter of Wm Cram baptized xxiiij February [161 1/12]. 

1612 William the sonne of Wm Cram buried xiij September. 

1612 Jane the wife of Thomas Cram buried xvij Februaiy [1612/13]. 
1616 Elizabeth the wife of Will'm Cram buried xj June. 

1618 Willyam Cram and Audry White married xiiij April. 

1619 Caleb the sonne of VV'illyam Cram baptized xxv April. 

1621 Josua the sonne of Willyam Cram baptized xxv December. 

1622 Josua the sonne of William Cram buried xvj August. 

1622 Audery the wife of William Cram buried xxv February [1622/3]. 
1624 John Cram and Ester White married 8[?] June. 

1624 William Cram buried 8 February [1624/5]. 

1625 Elizabeth daughter of John Cram baptized 11 Marcli [1625/6]. 

1627 John son of John Crame ba})tized 15 February [1627/8]. . 

1628 Augustine Cooper and Jane Gramme married 27 July. 

1629 .John son of John Cram baptized 13 April. 

1631 Thomas son of Cram buried 26 December. 

1632 The daughter of Richard Cramm buried 10 March [1632/3]. 

1633 Thomas Mason of Asserby and Thamar Cram married 10 (October. 
1635 Richai-d sonne to Richard and Alice Gram baptized 26 April. 

1 654 Thamar wife of Tho : Mason buried 1 9 October. 

*This marriage has been printed iu riiilliinore's Lincolnsliirc Parish Registers. 



FarlstJiorpe 

16^ Joseph the sonne of John Crame and Heaster his wife baptized 

5 October. 
1633 John the sonne of John Gramme buried 16 April. 

Huttofl 
1592 Margarita Cram sepulta 27 December. 

Strubby 
1598 Gregory Gramme and Katherne Dawson married 15 May.* 

Trusthorpe 
1625 Sarah Gramme the daughter of John Gramme baptized 18 April. 
1625 Sarah Gramme the daughter" of John Gramme buried 24 October. 

Willoughby 

1620 Will'mus Teisdale et Maria Wheelwright nupt. 2 November.* 
1625 Sara Gram filia Thomae baptizata 2 October. 

1632 Thomas Grambe et Maria Teisdale nupt. 3 May.* 

1633 Johes Gram filius Thomae sepultus 29 July. 

1634 Thomas Gram filius Thomae et Mariae ux' baptizatus 22 June. 
1638 Samuell Gram filius Thomae sepultus 16 September. 

1640. Matheus Gram filius Thome et Maria ux' baptizatus 21 September. 

Wilhern 
1568 Thomas Gram and Gecily Gram married 20 August.* 
1574 Robert Gram and Margaret Maltby married 6 .June.* 
1581 Anthony Bland and Gecily Gram married 9 July.* 
1598 Judith Cram the daughter of Gregory baptized 2 July. 
1600 Thomas Crame the sonne of Gregory baptized 26 July. 
1602 Agnes Gram daughter of Gregory baptized 7 March [1602/3]. 

1605 Fraunces Crame the daughter of Gregory baptized 20 October. 

1606 Anne Gramme daughter of George Gramme baptized 2 March 

[1606/7], 

1607 George Gramme buried 6 March [1607/8]. 
1615 Katherne Cram buried 19 May. 

Several of the American Crams have attained distinction in art, letters, 
and military affairs. They all descend from John Gram or Gramme 
who is first found near Boston at Muddy River, where his house-lot was 
bounded in Jan. l637/8.t He went to Exeter with Wheelwright, and his 
name is attached to the Combination of 1639. Later he was of Hampton. 

Family genealogists have identified him with a John Gram, born at 
Felling in co. Durham in 1 607, son of Burchard Cram, who was perhaps 
descended from the Von Gramms, a German baronial family. This theory 
has rested mainly on a lease of certain fish-pools in co. Durham, said to 
have been made in 1634 by John Gram, who is therein mentioned as " beino- 
about to travel to foreign parts," and who was entitled to his share " when 
he shall have returned from over seas." 

As our John Cram was one of a group of Lincolnshire men at Muddy 

*This marriage has been printed in Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 

t Second Report of the Boston Kecord Commissioners, pp. 22-3. The^allotments 
of Jan. 1637/8 were evidently the final record of the act of a committee appointed at a 
prior meeting, on 14 Dec. 1635. Therefore our John Cram may have reached Xew 
England in 163i5 or earlier. Probably he came over either with William and Anne 
Hutchinson in 1634 or with Wheelwright in 1G36. 



River and later at Exeter and Hamjiton, and as the name of Cram is still 
found in Lincolnshire, I questioned this presumed identification. 

First, I found the will (of which an abstract is given above) of Thomas 
Crambo of Bilsby, dated in 1638 and mentioning a son John. Then the 
Bilsby transcripts showed the baptism of tliis son John in 1596/7 and his 
marriage in 1624 to Esther White. The Willoughby transcripts disclosed 
a connection between these Crams and the Wheelwrights. Finally, in the 
transcripts of Farlsthorpe, the next parish to Bilsby, 1 found the baptism 
of " Joseph the sonne of John Crame and Heaster his wife " in 1632 — the 
very son Joseph who was drowned at Exeter in New England 24 June 
1648. 

Bell quotes from some Exeter record, which I cannot identify, the death 
of this son Joseph, describing him as "aged 15 years, the son of John and 
Lide Cram." On the strength of this Bell and Pope credit our John 
Cram with a first wife, Lydia, besides the wife Hester with whom he lived 
so many years. Luckily the death of this son Joseph is also entered in 
the old Norfolk County records,* and there he is called "Josepth, son 
of John and Hester Cram." Thus the alleged Exeter record is proved to 
be a mere scrivener's error, and the identification of our John Cram with 
the John of Bilsby and Farlsthorpe is complete. 

He was undoubtedly the son of Thomas Cram or Crambe of Bilsby, and 
his pedigree may be thus constructed : 

1. John Cram of Well in Alford, born about 1540. 
Children : 

2. i. Thomas, b. abt. lofiS. 

11. William, l)apt. at Alford 10 Nov. 1565 ; bur. at Bilsby 8 Feb. 1024/5 ; 
m. (1) at Alford, 18 Nov. 1596, Elizabeth Chapman, bur. at 
Bilsby 11 Jime 1610; m. (2) at Bilsby, 14 Apr. 1618, Audry 
White. Children by first wife: 1. John, bapt. at Alford 3 Jan. 
1597/8. 2. William, bapt. at Alford 6 May 1000; bur. there 21 
July 1601. 3. Elizaheth, bapt. at Alford 6 June 1602. 4. William, 
bapt. at Bilsby 10 July 1603; bur. there 20 May 1609. 5. Hubert, 
bapt. at Bilsby 3 May 1607. 6. Sarah, bapt. at Bilsbv 17 Dec. 
1609. 7. William, bur. at Bilsby 13 Sept. 1012. 8. Ltidia, bapt. 
at Bilsby 24 Feb. 1611/12. Children by second wife: 9. Caleb, 
bapt. at Bilsby 25 Apr. 1019. 10. Joshua, bapt. at Bilsby 25 Dec. 
1621 ; bur. there 10 Aug. 1022. 

ill. FitANCis, bapt. at Alford 21 Dec. 1572. 

iv. Christian, bapt. at yUford Jan. 1582/3; ra. (1) Thomas Eaithby 
of Belleau (licence 17 June 1613) ; m. (2j at Hannah, 27 Oct. 1631, 
Theopiiilus Dhuky; m. (3) at Hannah, 26 July 1636, John New- 
man.! 

V. Mary, bapt. at Alford 16 Sept. 1587. 

vi. Nicholas, bur. at Alford 14 Feb. 1588/9. 

vii. Elizabeth, bapt. at Alford 16 May 1590; bur. there 24 Apr. 1592. 

2. TnoMAs Cham or Crambe {John) of Alford and Bilsby, the testator 
of 1638, born, probably at Alford, about 1568, died between 3 Apr. 

1638 and 30 Mar. 1639. He married Jane , who was 

buried at Bilsby 17 Feb. 1612/13. 

Children, all except the first baptized at Bilsby : 

i. Richard, bapt. at Alford 19 Apr. 1589 ; d. abt. 1036 ; m. Alice , 

and bad issue. 

* Esuex Antiquarian, vol. 5, p. 46. 

tGibl)ons'.s Lincoln Marriage Licences, p. 28; Lincolnshire Parish Registers, Mar- 
riages, vol. 7, p. 82. 



il. Thomas of Willonghby, bapt. 23 Nov. 1595; m. (1) • m (2) 

at Willoughby, 3 May lfi32, Mauy (Whkelwright) Tkisdaie, 
dau. of Robert Wheelwright of Claxby and formerly the wife of 
William Teisdale, to whom she was m. at Willoughby 2 Nov 
1620. Children by first wife: 1, Surnh, bapt. at Willoughby 
2 Oct. 1625. 2. John, bur. at Willoughby 2<) July 1633. Chil- 
dreu by secoud wife, bapt. at Willoughby : 3. Thomas, bapt. 22 
June 1634. 4. Mattheio, bapt. 21 Sept. 16-io. 
3. iii. John, bapt. 29 Jan. 1506/7. 

iv. Samuel, bapt. 9 Mar. 1598/9 ; bur. at Willoughby 16 Sept. 1G38 • 
m. ; lived at Willoughbv. 

V. Jane, bapt. 24 Oct. 1602; m. at Bilsby, 27 July 1628, Augustine 
Cooper. 

vi. Thamau, bapt. 4 Dec. 1604 ; bur. at Bilsby 19 Oct. 1654 ; m. there, 
10 Oct. 1633, Thomas Mason of Asserby. 

vii. Anne, bapt. 8 Feb. 160.5/6; d. probably uura. 

viii. Sylvester, bapt. 16 Sept. 1610; bur. 8 June 1611. 

3, John Cram {Thomas, John) of Bilsby and Farlsthorpe, baptized at 
Bilsby 29 Jan. 1596/7, married at Bilsby, 8 (?) June 1624, Hester 
or Esther White, and came to New Kngland. He was at Muddy 
River (Brookline) near Boston in 1 6o8, of Exeter in 1639, followed 
Wheelwright to Hampton in 1650, and died at Hampton 5 Mar. 
1681/2. His wife Hester died in 1677. 
Children : 

I. Elizabeth, bapt. at Bilsby 11 Mar. 1625/6. 

II. John, bapt. at Bilsby 15 Feb. 1627/8; d. young. 

Iii. John, bapt. at Bilsby 13 Apr. 1629 ; bur. at Farlsthorpe 16 Apr. 1633 
iv. Joseph, bapt. at Farlsthorpe 5 Oct. 1632; drowned at Exeter in 

New England 24 June 1648. 
V. Benjamin, b. abt. 1640; m. Argentine Cromloih or Cromwell, 

dau. of Giles of Newbury; lived at Hampton, 
vi. Thomas, b. abt. 1644 ; m. Elizabeth Weare, dau. of Hon. Nathaniel 

of Hampton ; lived at Hampton, 
vii. Mary, b. abt. 1646; ra. Abraham Tilton of Hampton, 
viii. Lydia, b. at Exeter 27 July 1648. 

Dearborn 

Abstracts of the four following wills were communicated by me to the 
Register for July 1906 (vol. 60, pp. 309-310), and they are given here 
in briefer form in order to show the connection with parish register entries. 

The Will of Michael Derebarne of Hoggestrope, 24 April 1573. 
Agnes my wife. John my son. Thomas my son, under twenty. Jenet 
my sister, dwelling at Partney. Everyone of my brethern and sistern 
children. John my brother. Wife Anne executrix. Supervisor : John 
Markby. Witnesses: Thomas Bygeyt, Water Elwarde, John Markby. 
Proved at Lincoln 8 June 1573. (Lincoln Wills, 1574, vol. 1, fo. 288.) 

The Will of Thomas Dearebarne of Spilsby, mercer, 12 December 
1588. To be buried in the church of Binbrook. To the poor of Spilsby. 
My cozen John Burwell. To the poor of Hoggesthrope. To every one of 
my poor kinsfolke. Supervisor: Mr. Thomas Atkinson. Residue to 
brother John Dearebarne, executor. Witness : Thomas Atkinson, clarke. 
Proved at Louth 8 April 1589. (Lincoln Wills, 1589, fo. 224.) 

The Will of John Dearbearn of Sibsey, 11 October 1608. My wife. 
My son to be executor. To every one of my cosins children, to wit: 
Thomas Dearbarn, William, and Harry. To ten of the poorest house- 
holders in Sibsey. To ten of the poorest householders in Hoggesthrope. 



Residue to son John, executor. Brother John Kettle, supervisor. Wit- 
nesses : John Watson, Nichohxs Stocks, Thomas Parker. Proved at Boston 
11 April 1611. (Lincoln Wills, 1611, vol. 1, fo. 179.) 

The Will of Henrv Deaukbarne of Hanney, 12 Oct. 1635. To be 
buried in the churchyard of Ilauney, Eldest daughter Tomazin Deare- 
barne. Daughter >Sarai. Son John Dearebarne. Residue to wife Anne, 
sole executrix. Witnesses : Thomas Paine, Theophilus Drury. Proved, 
at Loutb 23 October 1635. (Lincoln Wills, 1635, vol. 1, fo. 128.) 

Dearborn Entries in the Bishop's Transcripts of Lincolnshire 

Parish Registers 

Alford 
1579 John Dearebarne and Katherin Mason married 19 July.* 

Belleau 
1602 John Dearebarne and Barbara Wilson married 3 June. 

Bilsby 

1612 Henrie Dearbarn and Anne Warden married vij July. 

Farhthorpe 
1620 John Dearebane and Marye Dales married 30 November. 

Hannah 

1595 Henry Dearbarne and Frauncis Barne married 14 October.* 

1596 Margaret dowghter of Henry Dearebarne baptized 12 September. 

1597 Alice dowghter of Henry Dearebarne baptized 8 March [1597/8]. 

1598 Stephen sonne of Henry Dearebarne buried 4 October. 
1600, Richard sonne of Henry Dearebarne baptized "3 August. 

1602 Richard sonne of Henry Dearebarne buried 7 February [1602/3]. 

1603 Thomazin dowghter of Henry Dearebarne baptized 16 April. 
Henry Dearebarne signs the transcripts of 1602-3 with his mark as 

churchwarden. 
1605 Sarah dowghter of Henry Dearbarne baptized 21 July. 
1611 Frances wief of Henry Dearbarne laborer buried 28 February 

[1611/12]. 

1613 Helen dowghter of Henry Dearbarne laborer baptized 11 September. 

1613 Helen dowghter of Henry Dearbarne laborer buried 8 November. 

1614 William son of Hen : Deerberne buried 4 November. 

1616 Thomas the sonne and Mabell the daughter of Heniy Dearbarne 

baptized 4 December. 
Henry Dearebarne signs the transcripts of 1617-18 with his mark 

as churchwarden. 
1620 Mary daughter of Henry Dearebarne baptized 27 September. 
1624 John sonne of Henry Dearbarne laborer ba})tized 21 November. 
1626 Thomas sonne of Henry Dearbarne husband' buried 18 October. 
1632 Thomas sonne of Godifrey Dearbarne weaver baptized 1 November. 

1632 John Trowt apprentice to Godifrey Dearbarne weaver buried 21 

December. 

1633 Henry sonne of Godffrey Dearbai'ne weaver baptized 22 March 

[1633/4]. 
1635 Henry Dearebarne husbandman buried 16 October. 

* This niai-riuge lias been printed in Pliillimorc's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



1635 Tomazin daughter of Henry Dearbarne and Francis deceased buried 

2 January [1635/G]. 
1637 John Hastings and Anne Dearebarne married 17 August.* 
1640 Sarai daughter of Henry Dearbarne and of Francis his wife buried 

16 April. 

Hogsthorpe 
1573 Michael Derbarn buried 29 May. 
1583 William son of John Dearebarne baptized 13 November. 

1585 Dorcas daughter of John Dearebarne baptized 6 November. 

1586 John son of John Dearebarne baptized 8 January [1586/7]. 

1588 Katherine wife of John Dearebarne buried 26 February [1588/9]. 

LUtle Steeping 

1617 Richard Dearebarne and Ellen Lawson married 27 July. 

1617 John Dearebarne son of Richard Dearebarne baptized 19 October. 

1619 Dorithy Dearebarne filia Rich'di Dearebarne baptized 7 November. 

1621 Dory thy Dearebarne filia Richardi Dearebarne [buried?'] 6 April. 

1621 Willia' Dearebarne filius Richardi Dearebarne baptized 11 November. 

1621 Willim Dearbarne fil' Richardi Dearbarne buried 4 March [1G21/2]. 

1622 Isabell Dearbarne fil' Rich'di Dearbarne baptized 13 February 

[1622/3]. 

Markhy 
1594 William Dearbarne and Agnes Hay married 2 May.* 

Willougliby 
1591 John Dearbarne and Johan Harrison married 1 December.* 

1594 Johanne Dearbarne buried 1 January [1594/5]. 

1595 Jane Dearbarne baptized 10 August. 

1596 Jane Dearbarne buried 25 June. 

1597 Gorge Deerbrane baptized 10 March [1597/8]. 
16,00 Thomas Dearbarn baptized 23 December. 

1603 Godfrey Dearebarne the sonne of Will'm Dearbarne baptized 24 

September. 
1609 Henry son of William Dearebarne bajitized 8 October. 
1613 Ane Dearebrane buried 29 August. 
1613 Saraye Dearebrane buried 7 September. 
1624 Georgius Dearebarne and Helena Robinson nupt. 24 June.* 
1624 Sheffeildus Dearbarne filius Georgii baptized 16 February [1624/5]. 

1627 Thomas Dearebarne and Susan Greene nupt' 12 August.* 

1628 Jane Dearebarne ux. Gulielmi sepulta 16 November. 

1630 Lucia Dearebarn filia Georgii baptized 18 April. 

1631 William Dearbarn buried 5 November. 

1639 Suzanna Dearbarn filia Georgii Dearbarn and Hellene ux. ejus 
baptized 4 March [1639/40]. ( 

The Dearborns are a typical American family of the older class. They 
were among the earlier settlers of New Hampshire, and their integrity 
and sterling worth qualified them to conduct with ability the larger affairs 
of their growing nation. The frontier post bearing their name lias grown 
into the second largest city of the United States. Their most distinguished 
member was Maj.-Gen. JHenry Dearborn. A young doctor in Nottingham 
Square, he raised a company of minutemen in a day after the news of 

* This marriage has been printed in Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



8 

Concord Fight, marched them at double quick to the front, fought at 
Bunker Hill, and served with distinction tlirough the Revolution. In 
later years he served through tlie War of 1H12, was Jackson's secretary 
of war, and was accredited minister to Portugal. His son, a major-general 
of militia, lived in more peaceful times, organized the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, and laid out the beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery 
at Cambridge. 

The first of this sturdy race to come to New England was Godfrey 
Dearborn, who signed Wheelwright's Combination at Exeter in 1639. 
All the earlier accounts of the family, including the excellent genealogy 
printed in the Rkgisteu, vol. 2, state that Godfrey Dearborn was born in 
Devonshire in England. Where this persistent misstatement originated I 
do not know. In the Registicu, vol. GO, p. o08, I showed that the family 
came probably from Lincolnshire. 

In the transcripts of the parish registers of Hannah I found the baptisms 
of the two older sons of our Godfrey Dearborn, who was a weaver there. 
ELe was the son of William Dearebarn of Willoughby, a parish which was 
the birthplace of Capt. John Smith and gave the family name to a dis- 
tinguished Lincolnshire line, the Lords Willoughby d'Eresby. 

Curiously enough, the name of Derburne is also found in Somersetshire 
and Devonshire. In Lincolnshire the name is spelled Dearebarne, as it is 
spelled in the will of our Godfrey Dearborn, whose pedigree may possibly 
be as follows : 

1. Derebarne, probably of Hogsthorpe. 

Children : 

i. MiCHAHL of Hogsthorpe, the testator of 1573, bur. at Hogsthorpe 

29 May 1573; m. Agnes . Children: 1. John of Sibsey, 

the testator of IGOS. 2. TJiomas of Spilsby, mercer, the testator 
of 1588. 

ii. John of Hogsthorpe, m. at Alford, 19 July 1579, Katiierine Mason, 
who was bur. at Hogsthorpe 26 Feb. 1588/9. Children: 1. Wil- 
liam^ bapt. 13 Nov. i583. 2. Durcas^ bapt. 6 Nov. 1585. 3. John^ 
bapt. 8 Jan. 1580/7. 

2. iii. "William. 
iv. Janet. 

2. William Dearebarne of W^illoughby. 

Children : 

3. i. William. 

ii. Joiix of Willoughby, m. at Willoughby, 1 Dec. 1591, Johan Har- 
rison. Children: 1. Johnnne, bur. 1 Jan. 1594/5. 2. Jane, hapt. 
10 Aug. 1595; bur. 25 June 159G. 

3. William Dearbarne ( William) of Willoughby, buried at Wil- 

loughby 5 Nov. 1G31, married at Markby, 2 May 1594, Agnes 
Hay. 

Children, baptized at Willoughby : 

i. George, bapt. 10 Mar. 1597/8; m. at Willoughby, 24 June 1G24, 
Helen Robinson. Children: 1. mefflchl, hapt. 16 Feb. l62i/5. 
2. Lnrj/, bapt. 18 Apr. 1G30. 3. Snmnna, bapt. 4 Mar. 1639/40. 

ii. Thomas, bapt. 23 Dec. IGOO ; m. at Willoughby, 12 Aug. 1627, Susan 
Greene. 

4. iii. Godfrey, bapt. 24 Sept. 1C03. 
iv. Henry, bapt. 8 Oct. 1609. 

4. Godfrey Dearbarne ( JFi7/mm, William) oi Hannah, weaver, bap- 

tized at Willoughby 24 Sept. 1603, died at Hampton, N. IL, 4 Feb. 



1685/6. He signed the Combination at Exeter in 1639, and lived 
there until 164S/9, when he moved to Hampton. The name of his 
first wife, whom he married in England, is unknown, but she was 
livino- in 1650, when, as Goody Dearbarn, a seat was allotted to 
her in the Hampton meeting-house. He married secondly, 25 Nov. 
1662, Dorothy Dalton, widow of Philemon of Hampton. His 
will, 'dated in 1680, was not proved until 1711. It is signed " God- 
frey Dearbarn his marke." In this country the name soon became 
Dearborn. 

Children by first wife : 
i. Thomas, bapt. at Hannah 1 Nov. 1632 ; d. at Hampton in 1710 ; m. 

Hannah Colcord, dau. of Edward; lived at Hampton, 
ii. Henky, bapt. at Hannah 22 March 1633/4; d. at Hampton in 1725; 

m. Elizabeth Marman, dau. of John ; lived at Hampton, 
ill. A daughter, who is known only because her father mentions three 

daughters in his will. 
iv. Esther, m. Richard Shortridge of Portsmouth. 
V. Sarah, b. abt. 1641 ; m. Thomas Nudd of Hampton, 
vi. John, b. abt. 1642 ; d. at Hampton m 1731 ; m. IVIary Ward, dau. of 

Thomas ; lived at Hampton. 

Rabone or Haborne 

From the Bishop's Transcripts of the Parish Registers 
of huttoft* 
1600 Robert Rabone son of Edward baptized 22 June. 
1605 Rose Rabone daughter of Edward baptized 7 July. 
1609 Robert Rabone buried 3 January [1609/10]. 

1621 Sarah Haburne daughter of William baptized 9 September. 

1622 Edward Haburne buried 12 August. 

1627 John Stubbes and Rose Haburne married 26 April.f 

1627 Margaret Haburne daughter of William baptized 29 April. 

1629 Ann Haburne wife of John buried 7 February [1629/30]. 

1635 John Rogerson and widow Haburne married 4 February [1635/6].t 

1638 Jane daughter of William Haburne buried 12 January [1638/9]. 

Among the signers of Wheelwright's Combination was one with the 
curious name of George Rawbone, also known as Rabone or ^ Haborne. 
He went with Wheelwright to Wells, but removed to Hampton in 1651 
and died there before 3 Oct. 1654, when his nuncupative will was proved 
in the Norfolk County Court, leaving all his estate to his wife Susanna. 
Thomas Levet and Robert Smith of Exeter, both Lincolnshire men, ap- 
praised liis estate. The widow married secondly Thomas Leader of Boston, 
and died in 1657, leaving bequests to many of the Wheelwright group, 
Levet and Godfrey Dearborn witnessing her will. All this convinced me 
that Rabone also was a Lincolnshire man, and I found in the transcripts 
of Huttoft several entries which confirm that idea. From the records which 
are given above it will be seen that the names Rabone and Haburne were 
interchangeable at Huttoft, which is a Lincolnshire parish within four 
miles of Alford and Bilsby. 

*In Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers, vol. 9, p. 50 (Huttoft Marriages), is 
printed the marriage of John Haburne and Ann Laverocke, 28 Jan. 1617/18; at Han- 
nah the marriage o^f Edward Haiborne and Katherine Thorpe, 24 Oct. lo86, is recorded 
(ib., vol. 7, p. 80); and at Markby and Saleby several Rabone, Rawbone, or Raybone 
marriages are recorded from 1557 to 1617 {ib., vol. 7, pp. 87, 88, 110, 112).--Editor. 

fThis marriage has been printed in Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



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Wheelwright 
The Will of Wyll'm Wheylwreyth of farforyth, 16 July 1550. To 
be beryd in ye kyrke yerd of sanct jjeter in fartoryt. To ye kyrke of 
lyncollne. To ye powre mens box at farforyth. To ye kyrke of farforyth. 
Maryon my wylfe. My son Robard. My son Jon. Rawyff my son. 
To symoud fostun. Tho' my son to be supervysore. Ye residew off my 
gudde maryon my wyffe haytf to dysspoys as she thynkyste best for ye 
helyth off' our sawllys, whom I make my Executrys. Wytnessys : John 
felypson, Wyll'm Jacson, Thos. wayd. Proved at Louth 23 October 1550. 
(Consistory of Lincoln, 1549-50, fo. 220.) 

The Will of Johes Whelwright of Gristed [Kirkstead], piper, 16 
March 1590 [1590/1]. To be buried in the chapell of Gristed. To Wil- 
I'm Laine. To Agnes Laine my daughter. To Will'm my soune. Will'm 
Laine, executor. Witnesses : Water barton, Leonard pane, Leonard Hall. 
Proved 14 Ajjril 1591. Administration granted to Agnes Whelewright, 
the daughter, the executor being a minor. (Gonsistory of Lincoln, 1591, 
vol. 1, fo. 384.) 

The Will of John Welewright of Mumby, yeoman, 5 February 1610 
[1610/11]. To the Cathedrall Ghurch of Lincoln. To the church of 
Mumbye. To the pore of Mumbye. All the deedes and vrritinge of one 
ten'te in Mumbye committed unto me on trust for the said townes use be 
given and continue to the use of the said towne of Mumbye forever. My 
sone Robert Whelewright shall pay unto Mr Thomas Massingberg of lowth, 
Councelor, £33 that I owe him, on condicion that my wife Elizabeth Whele- 
wright release her Thirdes in all my landes. To Robert Whelewright my 
son. To Mary Whelewright my daughter, to be paid at her full age of 
twenty-one. To Elizabeth Whelewright my daughter [also a minor]. To 
Susan Whelewright my daughter [also a minor]. To the childe w*^*^ is 
in my wives wombe. To Peter Rylay my sone in lawe. To Robert 
Rylay my sone in lawe. The goods of Wyll'm Page late of Mumbye were 
commytted to my trust. Elizabeth Whelewright my wife, executrix. Su- 
pervisors : Edward Appleyarde of Thurlbye and Robert Bettison of Hog- 
gestroppe. Witness: Robert Whelewright. Proved at Louth 18 AjDril 
1611 (Gonsistory of Lincoln, 1611, vol. 1, fo. 80.) 

Inquisition Post Mortem of John Wheelwright, late of Mumby, co. 
Lincoln, yeoman, taken at Louth 29 July 1611. The jury say that the 
said John Wheelwright was seized in fee of (a) one messuage, seven acres 
of arable land, seven acres and one rood of pasture, lately purchased of 
Thomas Morfolt, held of Nicholas Gyrlington as of his manor of Mumby ; 
(b) three acres of land, five roods of pasture, and two acres of pasture, with 
appurtenances, in Mumby, lately purchased of John Ryley, held of William 
Earl of Derby as of his jurisdiction of Mumby ; (c) two acres and one rood 
of pasture, with appurtenances, in Mumby, lately purchased of Pellam Grew, 
held of the aforesaid Nicholas Gyrlington ; (d) six acres of pasture in 
Mumby lately purchased of William Haistinges, four acres of pasture in 
Mumby lately purchased of Edward Emson, five acres and one rood of 
arable land in Mumby lately purchased of Francis Mason, all held of the 
King as of his manor of East Greenwich in free socage and not in chief. 
The said John Wheelwright died on 11 February last past, and Robert 
Wheelwright is his son and next heir and is aged twenty-four years and 
more. (Inquisitions Post Mortem, Ghancery Series 2, vol. 323, no. 93.) 



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The Will of Roberte Wheelwright of Salebye, yeoman, 13 October 
1611. To the parish church of Saleby and the jwor of Saleby. To Mr. 
John Croftes. To JNIr. George Scortrethe, now preacher of Alford. To 
Katheriue Wheelewrighte my wife all household stuffe as were late John 
Moneyes her former husband deceased. To Elizabeth Wheelewryghte my 
eldest daughter, Katherine my daughter, and Ellen my daughter, to each 
£100 at their ages of twenty -one yeares. If they or my sone John Wheele- 
wrighte shall any of them die before they accomplish twenty-one yeares, 
etc. Residue to sonne John Wheelewright, executor. Supervisors : Tho- 
mas Kingerbye of W^ainflett my sonne in lawe, and Christopher Foston nowe 
of Salebye. Thomas Kingerbye shall have the disposeinge of Ellen my 
daughter for nurture and education. X'pofer Foston shall have the dis- 
posing of Elizabeth and Katherine my two other daughters. Witnesses : 
William Everin, Thomas Everin. " The will within written was declared 
by Roberte Wheelwrighte to be his last will &c. the laste day of July 1612 
in the presence of us, Isack Johnson, John Pearson, William Balderston." 
Proved at Lincoln 7 March 1612 [1612/13], and administration granted 
to the executor. (Consistory of Lincoln, 1612, fo. 638.) 

The Will of Robert Wheelwright of Mumby, yeoman, 24 January 
1621 [1621/2]. To the mother church in Lincoln. To the church and 
the poor of Mumby. To Amy Wheelwright my loving wife eight Bills 
obligatory which William Dawnaby of Mumby Chappel standeth bound 
to me in, and also £3. 4s. which Nicholas Burrell of Mumby, butcher, owes 
me, and " one of my best fillies excepting that I bought of my father 
Andrew Gray." To Elizabeth Wheelewright, daughter to John Wheel- 
wrighte my ffather. To Susan Wheelewright and Marie W^heelwright, 
daughters to the aforesaid John Wheelwright. To Robert Rylay of 
Mumby, my brother, Jane his wife, and William his son. To Ann Rylay 
my apprentice. To Willyam Pinder of Mumby and Anne his wife. To 
George Hudson, servant "to Robert Dishorn of Mumeby. To Humfrey 
Gerrard of IMumby, clerke, to Mary his wife, and Richard his son, my 
godchild. Mr. Jolin Wheelwright, my nephew, sole executor. I give him 
all the remaines of my goods and all that land, etc., in Mumby purchased 
of Morefoot and holding of the manor of East Greenwich, to him and his 
heirs forever. And allmy other lands holding as it is supposed in knight's 
service more than that third parte he is heire apparent unto, reserving the 
thirdes of all my land unto my wife Amy Wheelwright. Witnesses: 
Humfi-ey Gerrard, clerke, Thomas Bough, Richard Tallbooll. Proved at 
Lincoln 4 March 1621 [1621/2]. (Consistory of Lincoln, 1621, vol. 1, 
fo. 148.) 

Inquisition Post Mortem of Robert Wheelwright, late of Mumby, 
CO. Lincoln, yeoman, taken at Louth 29 August 1622. [The same prop- 
erty is described as in the Inquisition Post Mortem of his father, John 
Wheelwright, given above.] The said Robert Wheelwright died on 26th 
February last past, and John Wheelwright, clerk, is next heir, as son of 
Robert Wheelwright, Senior, brother of John Wheelwright, Senior, father 
of the aforesaid R^obert Wheelwright, Junior, deceased, and is aged twenty- 
seven years and more. (Inquisitions Post Mortem, Chancery Series 2, 
vol. 765, no. 42.) 

Final Concord made at Westminster on the morrow of the Holy Trinity 
1658 between John Wheelwright, clerk, plaintiff, and Francis Levet^ 



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gent., deforciant, as to one messuage, barne, stable, garden, orchard, forty- 
acres land, ten acres meadow, and twenty-four acres pasture, in Maws- 
thorpe, in the parish of Willoughby, co. Lincoln. (Feet of Fines, co. Lin- 
coln, Trinity Term, 1G58.) 

Wheelwright Entries in the Bishop's Transcripts 
OF Lincolnshire Parish Registers 

* Anderby 

1603 John Whelewright and Elizabeth Smyth married 20 October. 

Bilshy* 

1621 Mr. John Wheelwright and Marie Storre married 8 November. 

1622 John the sonne of John Wheelwright baptized vj October. 

1626 William son of John Whelewright baptized 10 February [1626/7]. 

1627 William son of John Whelewright buried 19 May. 

1628 Susanna daughter of John Whelewright baptized 22 May. 

1629 Mary wife of John Whelewright buried 18 May. 

1630 Katherine daughter of John Whelewright baptized 4 November. 
1632 Marie daughter of John Whelewright baptized 19 May. 

1632 Marie daughter of John Whelewright buried 28 July. 

Claxby 
1598 Robert Wheelwright and Judith Masonne both of Claxby married 
18 May. 

1598 Mary daughter of Robert Wheelwright baptized 3 September. 
1602 Judith daughter of Robert Wheelwright baptized 8 August. 
1609 Katherine daughter of Robert Wheelwright baptized 13 May. 
1611 Katherine daughter of Robert Wheelwright buried. 

1612, 1614 Robert Wheelwright churchwarden. 

1623 Judith Wheelwright buried. 

Cumherworth 
1592 Alice Wheelwright buried. 
1596 Elizabeth Wheelwright baptized 24 June. 

1599 Katherine Wheelwright baptized 23 March [1599/1600]. 
1601 Elynor Wheelwright baptized 29 June. 

Laceby 

1633 Elizabeth daughter of Mr. John Whelewright and Mary his wife 

baptized 9 June. 

Malthy-le- Marsh 

1619 Willm. Morton and Katherin Whelewright married by licence 13 
November.! 

Mumby 
1585 Robert son of John Wheelwright baptized 18 February [1585/6]. 
1589 John Whelewright churchwarden. 
1601 Isabel wife of Thomas Whelewright buried 21 June. 

1601 Thomas Whelewright buried 3 September. 

1602 Alice wife of John Whelewright buried 11 January [1602/3]. 

1603 Susan daughter of John Whelewright baptized 25 February 

[1603/4]. 

*The Bilsby transcripts are without gaps from Miohaolmas 1594 to Ladj' Day 1635. 
From 1622 to 25 Mar. 1632 they are all signed by " John Whelewright, vicar." 
t This marriage has been printed in Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



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1605 Mary daughter of John Wlielewright baptized 11 December. 

1608 Elizabeth "daughter of John Whelewright baptized 2 April. 

1609 John son of John Whelewright baptized 10 January [1609/10]. 

1609 John son of John Whelewright buried 26 February [1609/10]. 

1610 —ell daughterof .John Whefe Wright baptized 9 February [1610/11]. 
1610 John Whelewright buried 11 February [1610/11]. 

1613 A ndrew Gray yeoman and Elizabeth Whelewright married 20 August.* 
1621 Robert Whelewright yeoman buried 27 February [1621/2]. 
1625 Charles Smyth and Amy Wheelewright married 13 October.* 

Saleby 

1605 Catherine ux Rob: Wheelwright buried 8 July. 

1606 Robert Wheelwright and Catherine Money mai-ried 17 November.* 
1612 Robert Wheelwright buried 23 February [1612/13]. 

Willoughby 

1619 Gulielmus Walker et Juditha Wheel wryght nupt' 30 September.* 

1620 Will'us Teysdale et maria Wheelwright nupt' 2 November.* 
1632 Thomas Crambe et Maria Teisdale nupt' 3 May.* 

Most of these Wheelwi-ight records are now published for the first time. 
The W^yll'm Wheylwreyth of Farforth, co. Lincoln, the testator of 1550, 
who had wife Marion and sons Robert, John, Ralph, and Thomas, may 
have been an ancestor, perhaps the grandfather, of John and Robert, 
the testators of 1610/11 and 1611, but evidence on this point is lacking. 
The following pedigree, however, is derived chiefly from these records : 

1. Wheelwright had sons : 

2. i. John. 

3. ii. Egbert. 

2. John Wheelwright of Mumby, co. Lincoln, yeoman, the testator 

of 1610/11, died 11 Feb. 1610/11 and was buried at Mumby on 

the same day. He married first Alice , who was buried at 

Mumby 11 Jan. 1602/3; and secondly, at Anderby, co. Lincoln, 
20 Oct. 1603, Elizabeth Smyth, who survived him and married 
secondly, at Mumby, 20 Aug. 1613, Andi-ew Gray, yeoman. 

Children by first wife : 
i. Robert of Mumby, yeoman, the testator of 1621/2, bapt. at Mumby 
18 Feb. 1585/6 ; d. s.p. 26 Feb. 1621/2 and bur. at Mumby the next 

day; m. Ahy , who siu'vived lum and m. (2) at Mumby, 13 

Oct. 1625, Charles Smyth. His cousin, Rev. John Wheelwright, 
later of New England, was sole executor of his will and his resi- 
duary legatee. 
ii. A daughter, m. Peter Rylay. 

iii. Jane, m. Robert Rylay of Mumby. She was living 24 Jan. 1621/3, 
and had issue. 
Children by second wife, baptized at Mumby : 
iv. Susan, bapt. 25 Feb. 1603/4 ; living unm. 24 Jan. 1621/2. 
V. Mary, bapt. 11 Dec. 1605; living unm. 24 Jan. 1621/2. 
vi. Elizabeth, bapt. 2 Apr. 1608; living unm. 24 Jan. 1621/2. 
vii. John, bapt. 10 Jan. 1609/10; bur. atMumby 26 Feb. 1609/10. 
viii. — ell (dau.), bapt. 9 Feb. 1610/11 ; probably d. young. 

3. Robert Wheelwright of Cumberworth and of Saleby, co. Lincoln, 

yeoman, the testator of 1611, was buried at Saleby 23 Feb. 1612/13. 

*This marriage has been printed iu Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



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He married first Alice , who was buried at Cumberworth in 

1592; secondly Cathekikk , who was buried at Saleby 8 

July 1 605 ; and" thirdly, at Saleby, 17 Nov. 1 606, Catherine Money, 
widow of John. 

Children by first wife : 

i. A PAUGHTKK, m. Thomas Kixgeijby of Wamfleet, co. Lmcoln; d. 
bef. 13 Oct H)ll, as she is not mentioned in her father's will. 

ii. John, b. abt. 1.5!,t2, since he Avas a mhior hi IGll, when his father 
* made his will, but was of ase 7 Mar. K! 12/13, when the will Avas 
proved. He was the celebrated Antinomiau, the founder of Exeter 
and third pastor at Hampton, N. H. See Kegister, vol. 21, pp. 
3«3-3G5 (article by Col. Chester) ; Bell's Memoir of John Wheel- 
wright ; Cliarles Francis Adams's Three Episodes of Massachu- 
setts History, vol. I, pp. 368 et seq. 

Children by second wife : 

iii. Elizabeth, bapt. at Cumberworth 24 June 1590. 

iv. IvATHERiNE, bapt. at Cumberworth 23 Mar. 1599/lGOO. 

V. Ellen or Elynok, bapt. at Cumberworth 29 June 1601. 

From this pedigree it apj^ears that Robert Wheelwright of Mumby, who 
died 26 Feb. 1621/2, was a cousin, not an uncle, of Kev. John Wheel- 
wright. There were not, therefore, as Col. Chester supposed, two broth- 
ers named Robert Wheelwright, but an uncle and a nephew of that name. 

In Col. Chester's day the transcripts at Lincoln were not as carefully 
arranged as they are now, for none are now missing, and in several, vtbich 
have apparently been found since Col. Chester made his search, there are 
W'heelwright records of importance. For instance, the burial of John 
Wheelwright's first wife is in the Bilsby transcrijit for 1629. This tran- 
script was supposed to be missing, and from its non-appearance the support- 
ers of the " Wheelwright Deed " claimed that John Wheelwright might 
have been in New England in that year. In fact, it is in the file, and is 
signed, like others, "John Whelewright, vicar." 

The record of the baptism of Susanna Whelewright in 1628 is also a 
new discovery. It was she who married Edward Rishworth. Previously 
printed jiedigrees have stated that her husband was a son of the Edward 
Rishworth of the Exeter Combination, but I believe that in fact her hus- 
band was the original Exeter settler. 

Attention has already been called to the connection shown in the tran- 
scripts between the Crams and the Wheelwrights. 

It is worth noting that the land in Mawthorpe, parish of Willoughby, 
which Wheelwright bought from Francis Levet (Register, vol. 67, pp. 
66-67) was acquired during Wheelwright's last visit to P^ngland, in 1658. 
At this date Francis Levet, who is described in Wheelwright's deed to 
Crispe as a "gentleman, of North Willingham," had not taken orders, and 
therefore could not be called a clergyman. My theory is that this Francis 
Levet was an own cousin of Thomas Levet of Exeter and Hampton. 
(Register, vol. 67, pp. 66 et seq.) 

Wight • 

The W'ill of Robert Wight of Hareby, clerk, 1 October 1617. To be 
buried in the chancel of the church of Hareby. To eldest son Daniel 
Wight £20 at twenty-one years. To eldest daughter Sara W^ight £10 at 
twenty-one years or at her marriage. To second daughter Elizabeth W^ight 
£10 at twenty-one years or at her marriage. To second son Thomas Wight 



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£10 at twenty-one years. To youngest son John Wight £10 at twenty- 
one years. To the poor of Harc^jy. Residue to dearly beloved wife 
Bridget Wight, executrix. My worshipful and good friend Mr. Hryan of 
Bollingbroke, and Mr. Edmond Power, minister of the same town, to be 
supervisors. Witnesses : Rich. Wright, Nathaniell Lambert, Daniell 
Wight. Proved at Spilsby 24 April 1G18. (Consistory of Lincoln, 1618, 
vol. 2, fo. 34o.) 

Wight Entries in the Bishop's Transcripts of Lincolnshire 
Parish Registers 

A/ford 

1603 Robert Wight, concionator, and Elizabeth Fulshaw married 21 July.* 
1613 Robert Wight, clerk, and Bridget White married 25 November.! 
1630 Nathaniel Heaton and Elizabeth Wighte married 21 April.* 

Ifarebi/ 

1 604 Daniel Wight the sonne of Robert Wight baptized 7 June. 
1604 Sarah Wigiit daughter of Robert Wight baptized 10 October. 

1606 Elizabeth Wight daughter of Robert Wight baptized 2 November. 

1607 Thomas Wight the sonne of Robert Wight baptized 6 December. 

1608 John Wight the sonne of Robert Wight, clerk, baptized 1 January 

[1608/9]. 

1610 Marie Wight daughter of Robert Wight, clerk, baptized 2 September. 

1611 Elizabeth^^Wight'the wiffe of Robert Wight, clerk, buried 26 .June. 
1611 Mary Wight daughter of Robert Wight, minister of Harebj", buried 

27 November. 
1617 RobTsrt Wyght, mynister, buried 8 January [1617/18]. 

Thomas Wight, one of the signers of the Exeter Combination, is con- 
sidered by Savage to be a Thomas Wright, but wherever the name appears 
in autograph the surname is distinctly Wight and nothing else. Appar- 
ently he left no descendants who remained in New P^ngland. He did not 
move from Exeter when Wheelwright left. He appears occasionally on 
the records, and was made a freeman in 1647. After this date we find 
him no moi*e on the records, and I think he died about 1650, leaving a 
minor son, Israel Wight. Israel seems to have been a ward of Capt. 
Richard Waldron of Dover, and came of age about 1664. In 1665 admin- 
istration on the estate of Thomas Wight of Exeter was granted by the 
County Court to Israel Wight. Previous to his coming of age Israel had 
perhaps been a servant or protege of Gov. Bellingham, for we find him in 
1656 witnessing a deed from Bellingham to Everill and a mortgage taken 
back. At the Quarterly Court in Salisbury, Apr. 1 6 64, Israel Wight sued 
Capt. Waldron for withholding his estate, which had been committed to 
Capt. Waldron at the time when Waldron was guardian for Wight. The 
case went up to the Court of Assistants, and finally to the General Court, 
which heard it in 1666, but by this time Israel Wight had apparently left 
the country. 

Thomas Wight is an interesting link, for he was one of the grantees 
named in the " Wheelwright Deed." The only family of the name I found 
in Lincolnshire was that of Robert Wight, a clergyman at Hareby, a 

*This entry is taken not from the Alford transcripts but from Phillimore's Lincoln- 
shire Parish Registers, Marriages, vol. 7. 
fThis marriage has been printed in Phillimore's Lincolnshire Parish Registers. 



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parish half-way between Spilsby and Ilorncastle. Robert Wight had some 
connection with All'ord, for he was a witness to Balthasar "VVillick's will 
there in 1598/9, and in 1613 he married there his second wife, Bridget 
White. The will of Robert Wight and the Hare by transcripts show that 
he had a son Thomas, baptized 6 Dec. 1607, who may have been the 
Exeter settler, although proof that he was the Thomas Wight of the Com- 
bination has not yet been found. 

WiLLIX 

The Will of Balthasar Willick of Alford, 7 February 1598 [1598/9]. 
To be buried in the church of Alford. To Anne my wife for the good and 
vertuous education of my children the lease of one messuage in Alford 
wherein Willyam Brockbaucke lately dwelt, which I had from my Lord 
Willoughby of Willoughby and Earsby for twenty-one years ; also the lease 
of one other messuage in Alford late in the tenure of Richard hornsey or 
his assigns, which I also had from my said Lord Willougbby for twenty- 
one years ; also one other lease of a tenement in Well in the parish of 
Alford late in the tenure of Richard Parrishe or his assigns, which I had 
also from the sayd Lord AVilloughby for twenty-one years ; also all my 
other leases, bonds, and assurances to my sayd wife for the good bringing 
up of my sayd children, together with all my stock and moveables, save 
that I give to IMr. Frances Merburie for the good will which I beare unto 
him my best gowne. Anne my wife, executrix. Witnesses : Robert Wight, 
Lenord Thory, Willm, Bellingham. Proved at Lincoln 16 February 
1598 [1598/9]. (Consistory oi Lincoln, 1598, fo. 200.) 

The Will of William Bellingham of Alford, yeoman, 25 August 
1606. To be buried in the church of Alford. To Susan my daughter £10, 
which my wife shall have the use of until she come to twenty-one years, 
provided that if my wife happen to marrie in the meantyme then she shall 
have £20 to her portion, to be put for her best behoof e into the hands of 
some faithfull frend. To Anne my wife the lease of one messuage in Al- 
ford where I now dwell, which I have from my Lord Willoughby of Wil- 
loughby and P^arsby for twenty-one years ; also one other lease of a mes- 
suage in Alford now in the use of Richard Hai-dy ; also one other lease of 
a tenement in Well. Residue to wife Anne, executrix. My good friend 
Mr. George Esterby, supervisor. Witnesses : Joseph Overton, dark, 
Will'm Angi-am, Parsevall Angram. Proved at Lincoln 4 November 1606. 
(Consistory of Lincoln, 1606,"fo. 360.) 

WiLLix AND Bellingham Entries in the Bishop's Transcripts 

OF THE Parish Registers of Alford 
1593 Peregrinus filius Balthasar Willickes baptizatus 22 July. 
1595 Balthasar lilius Balthasari AVillech baptizatus 27 July. 
1598 Edwardus filius Balthezeri Willech baptizatus 30 April. 
1598 Balthezer Willech sepultus 13 February [1598/9]. 
1600 Susanna filia Balthezeri Willech sepulta 28 May. 

1600 William Bellingham and Ann AVillech married 3 July.* 

1601 Susanna filia Will'i Bellingham baptizata 1 September. 

1627 Philemon Pormert and Susan Bellingham married 11 October.* 
1635 Anna lilia Edvardi Willickes et Susannae uxoris baptizata 13 May. 

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Balthazar Willix was a settler at Exeter in New England in 1640, and 
Mr. Frank W. llackett, in a brief article containing interesting informa- 
tion about him and his family (Register, vol. 50, pp. 46-48), stated that 
his name could scarcely be English. He was unquestionably the son of 
Balthasar Willick or Willech of Alford, co. Lincoln, the testator of 1598/'.), 
who had a wife Anne, and who was buried at Alford 13 Feb. 1598/'.). 
The entries in the transcripts of the Alford registers show the baptisms of 
three sons of the elder Balthasar, namely. Peregrine, 22 July lo'Jo, Bal- 
thasar (the Exeter settler), 27 July 1595, and P^dward, 30 Apr. 1598, and 
the burial of a daughter Susanna, 28 May 1600. Of the three witnesses 
to the will of Balthasar Willick of Alford Robert Wight was perhaps the 
father of Thomas Wight of Exeter, as we have seen; Leonard-Thory was 
of a good Lincolnshire family ; and William Bellingham lived at Alford, 
married there, 3 July 1600, Anne, the widow of Balthasar Willick, and 
had a daughter Susanna, baptized there 1 Sept. 1601. This daughter was 
married at Alford, 11 Oct. 1627, to Philemon Pormort, later of Boston, 
where he was schoolmaster, Exeter, and Wells. William Bellingham 
made his will 25 Aug. 1606, and was buried at Alford 2 Sept. 1606.* 

This Bellinghaiu connection is interesting, although I do not believe 
that the Alford yeoman was closely if at all related to the morose and 
aristocratic Puritan, Richard Bellingham, recorder of Boston in England 
and governor of the Massachusetts Bay. 

Balthasar Willick of Alford seems to have been a man of substance, 
and was perhaps a protege of Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby d'Eres- 
by. The oldest son of this Balthasar was evidently named Peregrine in 
honor of Lord Willoughby, and here one may indulge in theory to help 
out the gaps in genealogy. Nowhere else in Lincolnshire or in England 
have I found the name of Willick. It has a Flemish sound. Peregrine 
Bertie was a typical Elizabethan nobleman, a friend of Sidney, and in 
command when the latter fell at Zutphen. Bertie was born at Cleves, and 
from 1582 to 1590 was almost constantly abroad on diplomatic or military 
service,. mainly in Holland and the Low Countries. In 1597 he was made 
govei'nor of Berwick Castle. He died in 1601, and is buried at Spilsby in 
Lincolnshire. It may well be that Lord Willoughby attached to himself 
the Flemish youth, Balthasar Willech, and brought him to England on 
one of his numerous visits. This would explain the fact that the name 
appears nowhere else in England, and might account for the leaseholds 
which Balthasar Willech of Alford acquired from his lord. 

It would be intei-esting to follow the line of Anna Willix, one of the 
daughters of Balthazar of Exeter, who, according to the records presented 
by Mr. Hackett, married first Robert Roscoe, who moved to Roanoke 

and died there ; secondly Blimt ; thirdly Southwell ; and 

fourthly Col. Leare of Virginia.! It will be remembered that Winthrop 
recites with rather too much particularity the murder of the first wife of 
Balthazar Willix of Exeter. The recently published files of the old Nor- 
folk County Court show that at the court at Plampton, 7 Sept. 1648, Wil- 
lex sued one Rol^ert Hithersay " for raising an evil report of his deceased 
wife, and for breach of promise in carrying his wife to Oyster River in a 
canoe and not bringing her up in a canoe again." Hithersay, who roved 
from Concord to Lynn, P^xeter, and York, was apjiarently a wayward 
character, and maj^ have been suspected of the murder. 

* Wentworth Genealogy, vol 1, p. 77. 

tFor records concerniug Anna Willix and her sisiers vide htfra, pp. 81-82. — Editor. 



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THE DAUGHTERS OF BALTHAZAR WILLIX OF 

EXETER 

By ViKGiNiA Hall of Cambridge, Mass. 

The following records and notes relate to the daughters of Bal- 
thazar Willix* of Exeter and may be regarded as a continuation of 
the article by Mr. Frank W. Hackett in Register, vol. 50, pp. 
46-48. 

" Whereas Hon. Seth Southell, Esqr. and James Blunt, both of North 
Carolinah, did by their Last Wills give and bequeath unto Anna: first 
wife of said Blunt and afterwards the wife of said Southwell and her heirs, 
afterwards wife of Col. John Lere of Vergenea and so Died. Whose Sis- 
ters and Brother-in-law, lliizelpony Wood of Ipswich in the Province of 
Massachusetts in iS'ew England, and Francis Jownes and Suzana his wife 
of Portsm'^ in the Province of New Hampshire, said Hazelpony and Su- 
zannah own sisters both by father and mother's side to the above said 
Anna and so right heirs, in consideration of £250 sell unto our kinsman 
Thomas Pickeringe of Portsm° formerly our attorney, all the estate given 
to our sister Anna Lere by said Blunt and Southell in North Carolina." 
Dated 4 June 1697. Witnesses: James Allen, John Pickeringe. Re- 
corded 6 Sept. 1709. (N. H. Province Deeds, vol. 1, p. 343.) 

The estate conveyed by the deed given above is described in a deed, dated 
15 July 1709, from Thomas and Mary (Gee) Pickering to William Par- 
trido-e and Pelatiah AVhittemore, all of Portsmouth, as " a certain estate in 
North and South Carolina, more particularly the estate of Seth Southel, 
Esq. in the Province of North Carolina adjoining Salmon Creek, Kendrick 
Creek, Little River, Peatty Creek and the River Pasquatank, consisting 
of 12000 acres excepting 4000 acres formerly sold by said Pickering to 
William Duckenfield." (N. IL Province Deeds, vol. 7, p. 344.) 

The following facts about Anna, daughter of Balthazar Willix, are found 
in the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 1, pp. 34, 
74, vol. 3, pp. 247, 254 : 

James Blount came to Chowan Precinct, Colony of Carolina, from Isle 
of Wifdit Co., Va., in 1669, where he was living with his family in 1660. 
Mrs. Anna Blount, his wife, who first appears as " Anne Willis of Ipswich, 
Massachusetts," married first Robert Roscoe of Roanoke ; secondly James 
Blount, whose will was proved 17 July 1686 ; thirdly Seth Southel, gover- 
nor of North Carolina, whose will was proved 3 Feb. 1693/4 ; f and fourth- 
ly Col. John Lear of Nasemond Co., Va. In a suit brought by the executors 
of Col. Lear in 1697 he was called executor of Madam Anna Lear, and 
mention was made of certain goods consigned to her as Madam Sothell 
from Col. John Foster of Boston. 

Madam Anna Lear died before 1695, and Col. Lear died 27 June 1696. 
( Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. 17, p. 228 ; Williajn and Mary Quar- 
terlg',Yo\. 8, p. 171, vol."9, i^p. 83-131.) 

The first mention of IIazelelponi$ Willix is found in the will of John 
Cooper, "now resident in Weymouth," dated 24 Feb. 1652/3. The wife 

* For the parentage of Balthazar Willix of Exeter, vide svpra, pp. 79-80.— Editor. 
fFor c.Iiaracter and will of Seth SoiithoU sec John H. Wheeler's Historical Sketches 
of North Carolina, pp. 31, 89. 
J The name Hazeielponi is found in the Bible, 1 Chron., iv, 3. 



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of Henry Waltham, " in whose house I now sojourn," is to be fully paid, 
and "if there is anything remaining, Ilazillpenah Willockes dwelling with 
Mr. Waltham shall have 10s." (Suffolk Wills, vol. 1, p. 9G.) The Boston 
records show the birth of John, son of John Gee and llazelpanah his wife, 
27 May 1662. Hazelelponi Gee was baptized in the First Church, Boston, 
19 day, 9 mo., 1671. 

" The Depositions of Benjamin Norton & Thomas Pease Sein"^ of Edgar- 
town Testifieth & saith that they very well Remembred John Gee formerly 
of Marthas Vinyard & further we Testifie we Remembred Mary Gee 
his Eldest Daughter we going to school each of us with her unto her 
mother at Edgartown at the house of y® abovsd Gee about a mile Distance 
from the harbour about Sixty years since in the year One Thousand six 
hundred & seventy we bping very well acquainted with the family & that 
Mary Gee was the Reputed Daughter of sd Gee & so called & further 
saitli not." Attest, Jabez Athearn, clerk. (Suffolk Court Fil.es, 28939.) 

" Paid Joseph Merry in rye a bush & a peck in Indean corn sixe bush : 
upon a letter of M'' Nicholas Butler from Martins Vineyard to me w'^'h 
value of corne ]\P Butler paid to Hazaell Gee widd. of dwelling in ye said 
Island w*^'!! said corne upon i\F Ikitlers letter I received of Richard Belling- 
ham of Boston wittnes my hand - 7, 4, 70 

hia 

Joseph merry 

wittnes hereof n»iirk 

John Sewall " (Suffolk Court Files, 971.) 

Joseph Merry of Hampton married, 1 659, Elizabeth, widow of Emanuel 
Hilliard, who with Hannah \\'illix and others is named in a deed, dated 
22 Mar. 1663/4, from Ruth, widow of Rev. Timothy J)alton of Flampton, 
N. H., to Nathaniel Bachih.'r, being included among those who are to re- 
ceive legacies after the death of the grantor. ( Pope's Pioneers of Massachu- 
setts, p. 129 ; Dow's Hampton, vol. 2, p. 253.) 

The depositions of Samuel Wood, son of Obadiah AVood of Ipswich, 
Willam Harris and Susanna Stone, both of Ipswich, William and Abigail 
Cotton, and Samuel Lovell of Portsmouth, dated 26 Apr. 1732, are found 
in Suffolk Court Files, 33564. "\\'illiam Harris deposed that he " well re- 
membered Obadiah Woods Intermarriage with the widow Hazelelponi Gee 
near about sixty years ago he brought her from Boston, that it was the 
talk of the times when she came to Dwell in Ipswich that her former hus- 
band Gee was a Dweller or inhabitant at Marthas Vinyard. Slie brought 
with her into Obadiah Woods family a maiden Daughter named Mary I 
was well acquainted with the family & the said Mary who we used to call 
Mary Gee till she Intermarried with one Thomas Pickeria who lived at 
Piseataqua & the sd IMary is still Living there for ought any thing I know 
for I never heard of her Death." 

A similar deposition of \Mlliam Harris was communicated to the Essex 
Antiquarian (vol. 8, p. 164) by Charles E. Banks, M. IJ., author of the 
History of Martha's Vineyard. In this deposition, dated 7 Oct. 1736 and 
taken from Dukes County Deeds, vol. 6, p. 238, Harris says that the 
Widow Gee had three daughters, Mary, wdio married Thomas Pickering, 
Anna, who married Samuel Hodgkins of Gloucester, and Martha, who 
married Thomas C'otes. 

In the Ancient Burying-Ground at Ipswich is the gravestone of " Hasel- 
elpony Wood widdow of Obadiah Wood died Novimi"" y^ 27 1714 aged 78 
years." ( See Essex Antiquarian, vol. 13, p. 79, for illustration.) 



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